Mastering Clear Pictures: Including a Background Layer | by Florian Trautweiler | Jan, 2025

How one can Course of Pictures with an Alpha Channel utilizing OpenCV + Python

Including a Coloured Background to an Picture with an Alpha Channel

Just lately, I wanted so as to add a white background to a few photos with a clear background. Naturally, I used Python with OpenCV to automate the method, I wasn’t going to open a picture editor for every of those photos. On my first try at implementing this, I didn’t fairly succeed and needed to iterate, so I assumed I might share the method with you.

If you wish to observe alongside, ensure to put in the opencv-python and numpy package deal in your native Python atmosphere. You should use the next clear picture of an equation for experimentation, you possibly can obtain it from right here.

PNG Picture with Alpha Channel

Load Picture with Alpha Channel

In a primary step, we have to load the clear picture together with the alpha channel. If we load the picture usually with cv2.imread with out the required parameter, it is going to simply ignore the alpha channel and the picture might be utterly black on this case.

img = cv2.imread("equation.png")

cv2.imshow("Picture", img)

cv2.waitKey(0)
cv2.destroyAllWindows()